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[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Red Alert 2.

I’ve gone four hours without mentioning it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

By far my favorite game of all time. 11/10

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Hell yeah! There are dozens of us! No game has topped it for me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was so disappointed in RA3. It was absolute shit

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Video games changed so much during the 90s. I feel like this describes a single year.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Soundtracks have always been fire though. I still have the Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack, Red Alert soundtrack, Sim City 3000, etc in my playlist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Carmageddon's sound track was made by Fear Factory 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

It's Doom.

It's literally a photo of id software devs. You can tell by John Romero's glorious mane.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

I still listen to this music when working. Puts me right in the mood

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Maybe if the book was eight times taller

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

The book is from the game and actually only has 2 pages in it.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Crazy Taxi

Baulders Gate

Goldeneye

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Spin the roulette wheel of all Sonic games.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The snowboarding level, and the carnival stage.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Lol which one, there's like a dozen of each of those themes!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Half Life.

Age of Empires II.

Homeworld.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Jet set radioooooooo

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Looking Glass Studio

  • System Shock
  • Thief
  • Theif 2

Miss them so much

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Crusader: No Remorse

MechWarrior 2, especially Ghost Bear's Legacy

Descent 1 + 2

Dungeon Keeper 2

Unreal 2

Populous

Prince of Persia series

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Nobuo Uematsu carried hard with his music. Squeenix hasn't been the same since he left the company

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

About the majestic soundtrack of Doom: That's why it's still my ringtone.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Megaman 2 for me. Shit was hard but I still listen to the soundtrack

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

MegaMan 2 isn't a 90's game though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Populous: The Beginning

~~Black and White~~

Warcraft 1 & 2

Monkey Island 1-3

I could go on.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Donkey Kong Country had like. One of the best video game soundtracks of all time. Game was really hard towards the end too. One of my fav games of all time.

Doom could apply here too. ID was very much a small studio of dorks with a limited budget.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Duke 3D, Shadow Warrior, and Blood.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Optimal game dev size.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I still remember playing the Colin McRae rally demo on PS1 for the first time in 1998 or 1999 and seeing the Impreza WRX get mud splatters on it's sides in real time while drifting through the Scottish highlands. There have been few if any as awe inspiring gaming moments since, maybe the original Gran Turismo replay graphics.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Star Control 2

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't remember this game much, but the sound track is a banger

https://youtu.be/NW9ARJgn3ek

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Any of the Legacy of Kain games

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You gotta change that book to encyclopedia size. The amount of shenanigans you can’t explain without going into the other tomfoolery Amy Hennig and the rest of those wacky geniuses came up with…

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This has been Gothic for me, although it missed the 90's mark by just a bit

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I never really had sounds in the 90s. Always caused my mom to get headaches. All video games were played on low or no volume.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago

You poor bastard.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I started playing Day of the Tentacle without voices because I couldn't figure out the sound configuration.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Ultima Online, for sure. Anyone who says the Minoc theme song isn't banging is drunk and on drugs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Just a picture of Tim follin on the bottom right would have been enough, his music is sole weird voodoo only a Tim filling could pull of.
Bro went fire on everything, like pictionary; https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=SJwh3erQlyE

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

The face even looks like a Deus Ex NPC.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Counterpoint, some 90s games like Half-Life had a pretty good story

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I think the meme is suggesting most games had a decent story. Not Game of Thrones level, but a decent 200 page book.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Come on Lemmy.

Its been 23 hours since this got posted.

How has Chrono Trigger not already been mentioned?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

Because Chrono Trigger's story is more like three bibles stacked. Not a flimsy novella.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I thought that had a good memorable story?

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